Evergreen Passion Inspired by Paul Simon

Last Friday I got a lucky ticket to attend the concert of Paul Simon at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City.

I can’t believe that as an American music legend at his 74, he performed music like a young man and stood on the stage for over two hours. It was my first time to hear his live performance, also my first time to enjoy an outdoor concert in rain storms. With most loyal audiences and his fans in rain coats and umbrellas, we enjoyed the music “showers” till after 11PM. This may be Paul’s last year of performance before his retirement. I could feel that he was pouring his heart in the show. I said to myself, I want to perform on my life’s stage like this, and I want to have such waving fans as those who sang together, applauded and shouted loud and joyfully in the rain storms!

Paul Simon’s concert brought me many inspirations. Without fancy stage screening or decoration, nor even a dance or a beautiful lady in the band, he still won people’s hearts. Stared since 1964 as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, he has earned twelve Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.

From my personal experience through Paul Simon’s live concert, I believe his success comes from four keys:

1. Evergreen Passion.

Just like what he sings, “Still crazy after all these year”……it summarized his devotion to and perseverance in music for over 50 years. His energy derived from this true passion and gift is just amazing. Many stars have passions as well, but many of them are like shooting stars because their passions alone could not pull them through life challenges and the inner obstacles from themselves. Evergreen passion is a perfect unity of both heart fuel and mind power, so that the person with an evergreen passion has full commitment and persistence to sustain any challenges from life or from themselves.

2. Free Spirit.

Paul has a special style as his niche to attract his fans. From his classics like “The Sound of Silence” to his new songs, he performed like a fish in the water, in a casual coat or T-shirt, with a non-fancy figure and contemplative face, his engaging posture leaning towards audience and his self-indulgent hands movements. You can feel that free spirit enjoying and expressing music, and it’s contagious, as the fans all shouted, danced or kissed out themselves.

3. International Music in One.

This is another essence of his niche and special style. Paul took international adventures and collected diverse music and instruments from different cultures. On the stage, you can see many rare instruments hanging around, and the band members including Paul himself changed their instruments many times for different songs.

4. Excellent Expertise in Music.

There are totally 10 musicians performed in Paul Simon’s concert. Everyone of them has a special music skill area and unique style. Most of them can even play multiple instruments. Some of them performed music with Paul for over 25 years. You can hear from the performance quality that he hired the best musicians.

No matter if you are a fan of Paul Simon, what inspirations you may have got from this music legend or this article?

I hope you can always touch the nerve of passions, especially that of your own. May you find your evergreen passion, devote to it and let it bring you to a place that your life will enjoy, amaze, fulfill, and positively impact many others!

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Love and Blessings,

Spring Zheng

Abundance & Thought Leadership Coach

Empowering Visionary Entrepreneurs & Business Owners to Do What You Love and Succeed

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Appreciation Challenge Day 15 – Invite and Embrace New Opportunities

Everyday, while I am learning, creating, giving, sharing, connecting and serving, I build up the energy exchange with the world and universe. It’s invisible, but I can feel the flow.

You can not sit there day-dreaming that opportunities will visit you and good things will automatically happen in your life. You need actions. Sometimes things may occur slowly and not meet your expectation. Be patient, be optimistic, keep your work, and learn to adjust your methods to communicate and serve better. Sometimes, you can sense that opportunities are in the air, as long as you reach out your arms. Keep on your efforts!

I am grateful that I am in action and started inviting new opportunities like public speaking in my mind first, even though I know it’s my biggest challenge and stretching. I know that I need it, my services and clients need it. Secretly I know I will enjoy it more someday, or even love it. I have a great call and great messages that desire to fly out, to touch and transform every life that they can reach. So today I accepted another actual invitation to speak by a partner, yes, more I want! My mind is kicking, while my heart and arms are preparing to embrace greater opportunities!

Are you also looking forward to a new level of life? To invite great new opportunities, you need be clear about the five keys:

1. Your purpose
2. Your passions
3. What you want to achieve
4. What resources and challenges you need to lift you from the comfort zone to where you really want to be
5. What you can do today to make you closer to what you want

Check the above 5 keys, how many are you clear about now? What would you do now to clarify these keys in your life, so that you can be ready to invite and embrace more wonderful opportunities?

We’d love to hear your comment, story and inspirations! Please share this article with others who may benefit from it. Thank you!

Sincere Love and Blessings,

Spring

P.S.

Are you living your abundant life?

What does it look like to be in your dream life? How would you feel if you were living your dream life?

Are you doing what you love?

What are your true passions?

What are blocking your from fulfilling your passions and dream life?

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21 Days Challenge of Appreciating Yourself and Sharing

I am helping my client to start an Appreciation exercise. To make it easier for him and show an example, I would like to do such exercise together. For at least 21 days, 3 weeks, everyday we will write down at least 3 appreciations for ourselves, what we have tried, what we have accomplished, what we have created, what we have served, what we have won, what we are proud of ourselves……and every day such 3 or more appreciations should be specific and different.

We will keep this for at least 21 days till it becomes a subconscious new habit for my client, for his success and abundant life. The further challenge is to share with our facebook network, to inspire people and also hold us more accountable.

If you’d like such challenge to stretch your life, and embrace and love yourself more, join us!:)

So today is the first day, Appreciation Day 1. Let me share what I appreciate myself for today:
1. I am proud of myself being totally authentic to people who I love, my social network and my clients, and I would even show my vulnerable side to people.
2. I had a great coaching session to my client, fully presented, and felt so grateful that I can do what I love and help others.
3. I did not easily give up on anything, persistence is my great quality. My fortune tree plant is a good little example, that story I’d share separately.
4. I always try my best to keep my promise. Today I fulfilled my promise to my kids to bring them to library, even though it’s dark and raining a lot and very inconvenient. And I am sharing this because I promised my client that I will practice this exercise with him.
5. I showed my best love and patience to my kids, helped them prepare for school talent show with positive attitude and relaxed performance.
So many more to think and write, but I’d better save them for tomorrow:). And I guess I would turn this practice into my blog for better sharing and tracing as well.

So let’s call it a day, and have a good rest. You, my dear friend, may you find the best within yourself as well, that will lead to your greater life.

Love,

Spring

Are you living your abundant life?

What does it look like to be in your ideal life?

Are you doing what you love?

What are your true passions?

What are blocking your from fulfilling your passions and ideal life?

I have limited seats of Complimentary Breakthrough Coaching for those who really desire to live on their purpose and passions, and fulfill a meaningful life with abundant love, wisdom, happiness and success. Contact me at i@SpringMagicLife.com or SpringZhyL@yahoo.com to apply for a Breakthrough Coaching Session that will lead to your greatest discovery and transformation!

You can further connect with me and access our passion communities for more empowering resources. Only two easy steps to open a new world for yourself:

1. Sign Up at our website www.SpringMagicLife.com to receive Emails with great resources on How to Discover and Fulfill Your Purpose, Passions, Dreams and Prosperity.
2. Choose the Social Media that you love to connect with me and our community:

* Invite me to connect directly on LinkedIn, and Join our LinkedIn Group “Spring Magic Life Society – Love Wisdom Happiness Success”.

* Like our Facebook fan page “Spring Magic Life Society: Love In Action”.

* Subscribe to my inspiring Blog: https://springmagiclife.wordpress.com.

* Follow me on Twitter @SpringMagicLife.

Connect with me and join our uplifting communities, share your passions and challenges. We are here for you to fulfill your best dreams!

Mastermind Group Empowerment Meeting on Dec.17th: Recreating Yourself

Dear All:

Our International Mastermind Group’s next Empowerment Meeting will be on Dec.17, Tuesday, 11:00AM -12:00PM US EDT. This will be our last Empowerment Meeting for 2013. Our theme will be: “Recreating Yourself”. Please book your calendar for this event and confirm that you are joining us!

It’s the end of 2013, and soon the beginning of 2014. So it’s never an end. We keep receiving changes in life, and we keep changing. We may be broken down, we endure, we survive, and we stand up again. This is the season and time of realizing who you really are and what you are made for, and recreating yourself!

What old me and old beliefs we can give up?

What new me and new opportunities we can embrace?

What blessings and help we can ask for?

What new dream and abundance we can create in both life and business?

Let’s gather together as a mastermind and reveal our inner magic powers!

We’ll be using Skype video group conference.  If you are new to our mastermind group, please Contact Us to confirm if you’d attend this meeting so we can set up for you before the meeting. Thanks! We look forward to talking with you soon!

Wish you all a happy and transformational holiday season!

Love and blessings,

Spring

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Heaven or Hell

When people sigh for the toughness of life, when people struggle in daily life and almost lose their hope, when people starve for happiness while reality keeps telling them the contrast, no matter if people are religious or not, there may be the big question about whether life is a heaven or hell?   

There are many versions of Heaven or Hell stories. Here I’d like to share two versions and discuss the wisdom they reveal to us.  

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Story Version 1:

There was once a samurai who wanted to learn the difference between heaven and hell. He sought until he found a master from whom he thought he could learn. He stood before the Master and asked him what was the difference between heaven and hell. The Master took the samurai’s sword and, turning it to the flat of the blade, struck the samurai on the head. The samurai was surprised at this but chose to ignore it. He thought that the Master had failed to understand his question. He once again asked the Master about the difference between heaven and hell. Again the Master struck the samurai on the head. The samurai staggered back and puzzled over this. He approached with his question for a third time and, before he could utter a word, the Master struck him a third time. The samurai was now so enraged at this behavior that he grabbed his sword from the Master, raised it over his head and was prepared to bring it down on the Master’s head when the Master raised one finger and the samurai paused.

“That is hell,” said the Master.

The samurai was instantly so overcome by the courage of this frail old man – to have risked his life for the sake of a stranger’s question – that he fell to his knees and bowed before the Master.

“That is heaven,” said the Master.

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Story Version 2:

A man spoke with the Lord about Heaven and Hell. “I will show you Hell,” said the Lord. And they went into a room which had a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious and around the pot sat people who were famished and desperate. All were holding spoons with very long handless which reached to the pot, but because the handles of the spoons were longer than their arms, it was impossible to get the stew into their mouths. Their suffering was terrible.

“Now I will show you Heaven,” said the Lord, and they went into an identical room. There was a similar pot of stew and the people had the same identical spoons, but they were well nourished, talking and happy.

At first the man did not understand.

“It is simple,” said the Lord. “You see, they have learned to feed each other.”

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You do not need believe in either story as they are more like metaphors. But the wisdom enlightened in them deserves our deep reflection.

You could apply these metaphors in your real life:

When you struggle for anything and feel the stress and even pain on: career, success, wealth, fame, health, relationship……

That is hell.

When you live at present, appreciate and enjoy whatever you have, live a meaningful life, help each other and provide valuable things to others ……

That is heaven.

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Now questions to you:

Who should take responsibility for our sufferings?

What could make the difference between heaven and hell?

I hope you have the answers, and you do not need suffer any more.

The difference between heaven and hell is all in our mind.

The good news is we have the great powers to decide where to go, heaven or hell.

What powers do we have? It’s easy to remember our 3C’s.

Consciousness, Compassion and Collaboration. Rethink about these powers in the above stories and cases. What a difference could these powers make in a blink!

I wish you live happily and know how to turn over difficult situations using your great powers. If you do not think you have these powers or currently could not effectively use them, please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you find, claim and use these great powers to live your heavenly life on the earth. Heaven or hell, you decide.

Be Kind To Ourselves

Are you kind to yourself? Here’s why you may not be kind enough to yourself and it’s time to change!

When we exhaust our body, mind and spirit to chase materials and short-time pleasures in this world, we are not kind to ourselves; as we block our body, mind and spirit from reaching the true lasting happiness.

When we ignore the purpose of our life in this world, we are not kind to ourselves; as we allow ourselves to live a blind and wasting life.

When we stop kissing and saying “love” to our spouse and children, we are not kind to ourselves; as we let sands grow in our heart to bury our most precious treasures.

When we forget creating and giving but keep asking and waiting, we are not kind to ourselves; as we are wasting the best creative gifts we each has and devalue our life.

When we treat others as “others” and separate us from the ONE union of love, we are not kind to ourselves; as we limit ourselves to live in a cold well isolated from the big warm world and beautifully connected universe.

When we stop pursuing our dreams and accept the reality as our future, we are not kind to ourselves; as we are giving up the power of our magic life and let life become a meaningless flow.

So be kind to ourselves: cherish our body, mind and spirit to give them enough rest and peace, understand and reach true happiness; find our meanings to live a fulfilling life on purpose; kiss and show more deep love to our beloved ones; create and give valuable things to this world; connect with people in big Love and share our deep connections with the universe; and keep determined actions to realize our blessed dreams …… Please remember to be kind to ourselves, in every day!

Be the Master of your life

Be the master of your life, means that you are the master of your body, your mind, your emotions, your spirit, and the environment that you create around you.  Some people may think that to be the master of our life, we “have to” CONTROL and FORCE our body, mind, emotions and spirit to do certain things and the environment to occur in certain ways. Is that really a master?

On the contrast, true Masters let go and enjoy the rhythms of their body, mind, emotions, spirit and environment. You may have found that the more you want to control or force, the farther you are from what you really desire: love, relationships, career, money, health, freedom……

Think about the real freedom way to live. Here is a self-training tip. The more you think you MUST have something to live well and happily, the more you may be unhappy, and the more you need let it go.  Live on the contrast, that WITHOUT IT YET YOU CAN LIVE HAPPILY!  Please say this to yourself whichever matches your situation:

Without a soul mate yet, I can live happily.

Without much money yet, I can live happily.

Without a successful career yet, I can live happily. 

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Please don’t get me wrong. This way is not teaching you not to wish for soul mate, for money and for success. They can still be your dearest dreams and guide your efforts, but your happiness is not DEPENDING on them any more!

The above Contrary Thinking is for instant situation transition. To have long term and lasting transformation for less stress and freedom, you need know yourself.  Yes, Know Yourself All The Time! Ask yourself, Who Am I and What Am I For In This World, to see if you have clear and satisfied answers. If not, please don’t stop pursuing the answer for a worthy life, or seeking for professional help to find the answer earlier.

Now keep your self-training, reflect and find the evidence that you can live happily and appreciate it everyday especially when you think that you have nothing:

I have my lovely family,

I have friends,

I have dreams and commitment,

I have my magic powers of thinking, loving and creating,

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Keep a strategic mindset training till appreciation becomes your new habit and inerasable mind power.

Now, start to make strategic planning and take step-by-step action to realize your dream. Even though that may be a thousand-mile journey, start it right now and persist.

Further more, only when you become the endless fountain of your own love, wisdom and happiness, could you give more to others, and will the law of attraction favor you. Connect with the universe, where you will find endless power to recharge yourself. Magic will begin when you are not even aware of it.

So let’s recap the four-phase approach to “Be the Master of Your Life”:  

• Let go, contrary thinking, know yourself, be free.  
• Be happy on the evidences that worthy your gratitude. 
• Keep your efforts in planning and committed actions, and hold your faith.  
• Connect with the Universe, love and give, and let the miracles come to you naturally.

If you have further interest in this four-phase approach to “Be the Master of Your Life”, please contact me for more information. If you share with me your ideal target, my professional empowerment will support you to get there efficiently.

The greatest factor in happiness

Keirsey.com recently released news on their survey and research on happiness and its factors.

http://www.keirsey.com/personalityzone/happiness_survey.asp

They have some impressive findings, especially on how money and personality impact happiness.

How much money do you need for happiness?  You may not believe it, both Keirsey and the NAS study found that a household income of $75K seemed to be key number! After meeting their basic living standards, many people found that they do not need much money to feel happy. I hope you are one of these “simple” but “happy” people!

Keirsey then revealed another important finding, “The greatest factor in happiness is one’s personality type. 74% of extraverts are happy, as opposed to only 56% of introverts.”

Is it true that some people are born to be happier than some other people? Seems the Creator is unfair? So what can you do especially if you are now an introvert?

This survey and research continued to provide some valuable recommendation: “In general, it appears that when individuals have the chance to share ‘the good’ with others, it leads to an increase in happiness, and when individuals are able to share ‘the bad and the ugly’ with others, it decreases the level of unhappiness felt within.”

So “… talking aloud ……to laugh together in celebration, or to simply ‘get things off your chest’.”

It seems more easy and natural for extraverts to talk aloud and share openly with others than introverts. Can one’s personality change purposely?

I used to think I am an introvert when I was a student. I was so focused on learning, and books were my best friends, which resulted in my excellent study performance. I had just a few loyal friends and I did not want to expand my network even though sometimes I felt very lonely with only books! After I graduated and started to work, the big world taught me how important it is to connect with other professionals and resources which could enrich my development. After years of exploration, with my growth in love and wisdom, I realized that giving is more valuable and meaningful than asking, and it brings deeper inside happiness. Now as a professional coach, I am dedicating my work and service to empower others to live their best life and fulfill in love, wisdom and happiness. From an introvert I have grown into an extravert(also proven by Keirsey’s test)! With love and wisdom, I am happily doing my dream work!  

This secret may need a more profound study and research to give scientific proof, that Personality could be changed by Love and Wisdom! If keirsey’s team could know this secret, they would not have judged and announced that “The greatest factor in happiness is one’s personality type”.   

If I did it, you could too. So don’t worry about your original or current personality. Forget about seeking happiness. Instead, focus on learning and revealing your inside love and wisdom. Find every opportunity to practice your caring, sharing and giving. You will open up to the world, and happiness will find you.

P.S. As one of the resources, our LinkedIn Group “Spring Magic Life Society” will be a great place for you to find similar-spirit people, and practice exploring and sharing in love, wisdom and happiness.

What is beyond Tian Men?

Please watch this video first. It has audio in English. After watching it, please get “Back” to this blog page.

Haute Voltige – Tianmen Cave Flight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu8S5vn6ShI

Astonishing, isn’t it?

Tian Men, in Chinese, means the gate to the heaven. It’s a wonder, a natural wonder.

Which part do you think is really the magic? Tian Men, or the pilots, or both?

It’s a race. No one was forced to take it. Those pilots must participate the race only because they really wanted and desired this challenge, a new challenge different from any of their previous experiences.

Did you see how excited and enjoying those pilots were after they passed through Tian Men and entered into the bigger and higher sky? The passing through process was only about a few seconds, what’s going on there in those pilots’ minds? We can feel the courage, focus and determination in them, and we see the victory, excitement and joy. That’s enough witness for us.   

Did you feel the energy changes during the process, especially after the airplanes passed through Tian Men and the pilots looked up and around with excitement and fulfilling joy? Even though you were not the pilots, with your silent witness, could you also feel the heart beating, the courage collection, the focus, the determined action, then the endless freedom and happiness? Don’t you want to pass through Tian Men yourself at least once in your life as well?

You do not necessarily need go to China and go to the Tianmen Mountian for such a wonderful experience. Don’t you? Life itself has many Tianmens, so are the passing through and conquering opportunities.

Now when you are facing a big life challenge, when you are really terrified or frustrated or unsatisfied, you may imagine it as a Tian Men, the gate to the heaven, which you as the pilot, “want” to steer your airplane to pass through and go beyond without any hesitation.  You registered for the race as your life would not give up. You put up your pilot helmet as your soul would not withdraw. You hold tight your steering wheel and look right into Tian Men cave your target, everything else does not exist any more. There is only you and your target, together as a one, at present. Now your airplane flies up, you are getting closer and closer to it, before your airplane actually steers through the cave, your mind and soul has already passed through it, with your full-heart determination and commitment.

Is the flight race more admirable without the Tian Men? Is the weather more beautiful without four seasons? Is happiness more enjoyable without pain and suffering? Is life more interesting without challenges and failures?

Yes, life is not only the Tianmen racing, and you may not be a master pilot. You may fail in some life challenges.  Those real pilots may fail many times in their learning, practice and taking challenges in other places before their Tianmen race. If we only look at Tian Men as a cave, the sky is only like that little hole, similar to our life, may just be like that challenge. Those pilots did not give up in their previous failures, and they did not see Tian Men challenge as just passing through a little hole, otherwise they would never get the chance to challenge Tianmen and win it. In their eyes, Tian Men is the hole towards a bigger and higher sky, and the gate to the heaven. The big sky, heaven, courage, victory, freedom, and happiness is their real unlimited target.

Every life and its different life stages may have different Tian Mens. My current Tian Men is to further balance my commitments to both my young family and my creative work, keep loving, writing, coaching, empowering, connecting and serving more people.  What is your current Tian Men? May I invite you to participate in this Tian Men flight challenge? We share the Tian Men challenge, but do not race with me, instead, race with yourself, the old you, the terrified or frustrated or unsatisfied you, for a new, brave and better you.

So take yourself as a pilot, a never-give-up life soldier, and take your challenges, as a Tian Men, one by one. Fall down, climb up again. When you really conquer a Tian Men, enjoy that victory, not for winning a race, but for knowing yourself, collecting your courage, committing your heart, determining your mind, steering your action, exploring your potential and making a new life victory.

The 4-Level Happiness Pyramid

Happiness is a very interesting and popular topic. Many people are searching for it, researching on it, assessing it, discussing it, sharing it…… Some resources could even list out over 30 types of happiness. Some teach people diverse tips of getting happiness. Some focus on work, some focus on finance, some focus on relationship, some focus on spirituality……But few of these resources clarify the depth of happiness and help people how to comprehensively and organically access higher levels of true happiness.

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert introduced the concept of Synthetic Happiness vs. Natural Happiness, and proved that Synthetic Happiness is real as well. This concept or terminology may confuse some people that they may discriminate some forms of happiness from being natural. Actually all the different forms of real happiness are natural, no matter if it’s generated automatically from getting what we want, or synthesized/manufactured from our thinking, or transcended from both automatic and synthetic processing. These forms of happiness are just at different levels of Natural Happiness.

With over 17 years of personal experience, studying and reflection on different statuses and levels of happiness, I found that natural happiness touches our life at the depth of four levels. A Happiness Pyramid could help illuminate the depth and levels.

At the bottom of the Happiness Pyramid is the Level Four happiness: Biological Happiness. Up from the bottom is the Level Three: Happiness in Wisdom. The Level Two is: Happiness in Love. At the top of the pyramid is the Level One: Happiness in Wise Love.

Level One: Happiness in Wise Love

Unconditional and giving love guided by wisdom. Generated by our powerful thinking wisdom and magic emotional wisdom.

Level Two: Happiness in Love

Romantic love. Generated by our magic emotional wisdom.

Level Three: Happiness in Wisdom

Inner peace and joy. Generated by our powerful thinking wisdom.

Level Four: Biological Happiness

Pleasure. Automatically generated by our brain when we get what we want.

Level Four the Biological Happiness is a fundamental type of happiness. The happiness we get in most of our life time is at this level. And most people most time are at this level. When our desires get satisfied, our brain generates certain chemicals, and we experience natural pleasure. But if we are only satisfied at this bottom level, or our consciousness only stays at this level, pleasure stays short with us, and we may be driven by materials including money and positions to satisfy our desires. Sometimes in this process we could become unconscious, which means that we may not feel the specialty and preciousness of happiness, and we may experience difficult to access the other three deeper levels of happiness.

Level Three Happiness in Wisdom is a breakthrough and sustaining level. Without Level Three, Level Two Happiness in Love could not last for long time. Without wisdom guidance, love could become blind and suffering in long run. Happiness based on generic love to the public and to the world belongs to Level Two. Inner peace and joy are typical description for this level of happiness. Level Three is most close to what psychologist Dan Gilbert called Synthetic Happiness, which means our brain and thinking could generate this level of happiness, no matter how stuck we may be. This level is also the most creative type of happiness as it proves how much powerful our wisdom thinking could turn things around.

Level Two Happiness in Love is a fortunate and romantic type of happiness. This is the most desiring type of happiness in most people’s hearts. And it’s popular especially in young people as they are romantic! In this kind of love, one forgets oneself and gives oneself fully to another one. This happiness is most described or praised by authors, poets, play writers, journalists, etc. When people are in Happiness in Love, they may find it difficult to stay calm or even peaceful, as they are extremely excited, passionate and full of imagination, being so happy while also nervous. Happiness in Love could also be narrow, as one may only think about another one while forget about the whole world!:).

Level One Happiness in Wise Love is the supreme level of happiness which is born from the marriage of love and wisdom, and from the unity of wise thinking and pure emotions. This is the rarest type of happiness and most blessed one. Only romantic and unconditional love guided by wisdom could lead people into the highest level of human’s happiness. In this kind of transcended love, one forgets oneself and gives oneself fully to another one, the world and the universe. Level One Happiness in Wise Love is also the most complex type of happiness, because it involves the harmonious dance of thinking and emotions. Unlike Level Three Happiness in Wisdom where most emotions are under our thinking power’s control and may not get enough freedom, and unlike Level Two Happiness in Love where emotions are beyond our wisdom’s guidance and could become extreme and blind, level One Happiness in Wise Love invites both thinking wisdom and emotional wisdom to collaborate together and generate a magic mixture.

It’s important for us to be first conscious about the depth of happiness, and be aware which level we are currently at, before we could understand what happiness we really desire, only by then could we learn and discover how to access the higher levels of happiness.

In my future serials of articles, I would further discuss how to reveal the powerful thinking wisdom and the magic emotional wisdom. If you are interested in discovering your own wisdom and accessing higher levels of happiness as early as possible in your life, please feel free to contact me and start a magical discovering journey right now.